860806b Antennaria rosea subsp. confinis (Greene) R.J. Bayer
Distribution
Central Canada: Present only in the Borderline Arctic
Shrub Tundra: Present only in the Borderline Arctic
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Scattered
- R.J. Bayer, Brittonia 41: 57 (1989b). - Antennaria confinis Greene, Pittonia 4: 40 (1899). Lectotype (NDG): U.S.A.: Arizona, the Santa Catalina Mountains, June 1880, leg. J.G. Lemmon (Bayer 1989b: 57).
- Antennaria leuchippii Porsild, Canad. Field-Naturalist 60: 85 (1947). Holotype (CAN): Canada: the Yukon Territory, Whitehorse, 11. July 1944, leg. A.E. Porsild and R.T. Porsild.
- Antennaria elegans A.E. Porsild, Canad. Field-Naturalist 64: 18 (1950). Holotype (CAN): Canada: the Yukon Territory, the Pelly Range, upper Rose River, leg. A.E. Porsild and Breitung 10,411.
- Antennaria breitungii A.E. Porsild, Canad. Field-Naturalist 64: 18 (1950). Holotype (CAN): Canada: the Yukon Territory, Whitehorse, sandy bluffs east of Lewes River, 1944, leg. A.E. Porsild and R.T. Porsild 9229.
2n=
(1) 28 (4x). - Chmielewski and Chinnappa (1990, for A. elegans).
(2) 42 (6x). - Bayer (1993).
(3) 56 (8x). - Chmielewski and Chinnappa (1990, for A. elegans, A. incarnata, and A. breitungii); Bayer (1993).
(4) 70 (10x). - Bayer (1993).
The report of a tetraploid by Chmielewski and Chinnappa (1990) is outside Bayer's concept of this taxon.
Geography: North American (W): (CAN).
Notes: Porsild & Cody (1980) mapped subsp. confinis (as Antennaria elegans) as possibly present in the Borderline Arctic in the Great Bear Lake area in the Northwest Territories.
Higher Taxa
- Antennaria rosea [860806,species]